Sentence examples for if not concrete from inspiring English sources

All five nations are trying to rein in separatists or rebel groups, many of them drawing inspiration if not concrete aid from the Taliban, Afghanistan's militant Islamic rulers.

He did last week, though, including telling attendees that Wish now has "hundreds of millions of users," that it saw "single-digit billions of dollars" in gross merchandise volume, and seemingly confirming rumors that the company has seen interest (if not concrete acquisition offers) from Alibaba and Amazon.

Even if God is not concrete, proof of His existence would raise hope of explaining the existence of concrete things.

That is, if an example is not concrete enough, it may be too difficult to understand.

Already a practitioner of concrete poetry, Finlay began "planting" poems, if not in concrete, then in marble, granite, slate, across streams, on gardening tools, even in the trees: "WOOD / WIND / SONG, WIND / WOOD, WOOD- / WIND / SONG".

The laws are largely in place if not totally concrete.

If you think about OS X Lion a bit, it's obvious that iOS was in mind during development, if not a concrete source to draw from.

If not, what concrete actions will you take to reduce the racial wealth gap? 2. America loves rags-to-riches stories, but economic mobility in this country is pretty terrible.

If this is what possible worlds are it seems that they are not concrete, or at least not purely concrete.

And why not concrete?

And yet this abstraction is, if not tangible, utterly concrete.